My right breast is kind of sad and deflated looking. In other words, it’s looking more of the way it’s supposed to so Mom, no freaking out today, either.

I took one of my mom’s suggestions and cut the right cup out of an old bra, just leaving a small strip of fabric along the bottom to fashion a kind of “chest monocle,” to provide some support to the “good one.” It was a good experiment if only for the laugh I got out of thinking up the name, “chest monocle.”

George Lakoff has retired as Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is now Director of the Center for the Neural Mind & Society (cnms.berkeley.edu).